From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 08:30:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19862 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 08:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA19854 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 08:30:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA03439 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 10:30:52 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 10:30:51 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm never sleeps... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 26 May 1996, John Fieber wrote: > I just `upgraded' from XFree86 3.1.2 to 3.1.2E. Now `idle' xterm > process sit chewing up cpu time. A couple xterms will keep the > load average around 1 on an otherwise completely idle system. Okay, I got a response from the XFree86 people and it is now a known bug. There is also a bug in the termios code for xterm that can make rlogin fail if you session was started with xdm. So, if you upgrade to "E", be sure to hang on to your "D" xterm for now! -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================